{"id":1025,"date":"2020-02-23T20:34:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T20:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2020-02-23T20:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T20:35:14","slug":"a-good-girls-guide-to-murder-by-holly-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"A Good Girl&#8217;s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Crime fiction has often been my genre of choice in February. I am not sure why, but it just seems to have been the theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;A Good Girl&#8217;s Guide to Murder&#8217; has been on my tbr pile for a little while but, as it has been nominated for the &#8216;Waterstones Children&#8217;s Book Prize 2020&#8217;, I thought it was about time I picked it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a great piece of crime fiction &#8211; that all readers can enjoy, it does not need to be defined by YA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pip decides to tackle a cold case as part of a college project. She is convinced that Sal was not responsible for the disappearance of Andie. As Pip investigates the case, with the help of Ravi, Sal&#8217;s brother, she uncovers far more secrets and mysteries that she was expecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although, I solved a small part of it as I read the book (too many crime novels and TV shows in my formative years), there was plenty I did not work out; plot twists galore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pip is a great lead character. A strong-minded, determined young lady &#8211; who values education and is loyal to those that matter to her. It is great to see another strong female lead in a novel who can be an inspiration, although of course I would not expect us all to go off and investigate cold cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really enjoyed this book and wish it lots of luck in the &#8216;Waterstones Children&#8217;s Book Prize&#8217;. I, also, can not wait for the release of &#8216;Good Girl, Bad Blood&#8217; later in the year to join Pip on her next escapade, and enjoy more of Holly Jackson&#8217;s writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime fiction has often been my genre of choice in February. I am not sure why, but it just seems to have been the theme. &#8216;A Good Girl&#8217;s Guide to Murder&#8217; has been on my tbr pile for a little while but, as it has been nominated for the &#8216;Waterstones Children&#8217;s Book Prize 2020&#8217;, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[528,181,36,545,137],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-a-year-in-books-2020","tag-crime-fiction","tag-fiction","tag-holly-jackson","tag-ya-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jrc7-gx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bookwormandtheatremouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}